Follower

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"Follower" is a well-known poem by Seamus Heaney that reflects on his childhood admiration for his father’s skilled farm work and his own feelings of clumsiness and later role reversal.

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instanceOf poem
author Seamus Heaney NERFINISHED
collection Death of a Naturalist NERFINISHED
concludesWith image of father now following the son
contrasts father’s skill with child’s clumsiness
countryOfOrigin Ireland
depicts father as expert ploughman
explores burden of parental expectations
changing family roles over time
focusesOn ploughing
speaker’s father
form regular stanza form
genre lyric poetry
includesMotif following and being followed
influencedBy Heaney’s rural upbringing
language English
literaryDevice alliteration
enjambment
imagery
metaphor
simile
literaryMovement Postwar poetry NERFINISHED
meter loosely iambic
narrativePerspective first person
oftenAnthologizedIn modern poetry anthologies
partOf Seamus Heaney’s early farm poems
publicationYear 1966
publisher Faber and Faber NERFINISHED
rhymeScheme largely regular
setIn mid-20th-century Irish countryside
setting rural farm in County Derry
speaker child version of the poet
structure six quatrains
studiedIn A-level English Literature syllabuses
GCSE English Literature syllabuses
theme admiration
childhood
father–son relationship
identity
masculinity
memory
role reversal
rural life
skill and clumsiness
tone nostalgic
reflective
tinged with regret

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